Best History movies

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Inspired by a true mining tragedy the film is about people from all walks of life showing courage and character to fight the forces of nature.

Actors : Stacy Martin, Valeria Golino, Vincent Lindon, Julia Roy,
Directors : Benoît Jacquot,

In the eighteenth century, Casanova, known for his taste for fun and play, arrived in London after having to go into exile. In this city of which he knows nothing, he meets several times a ...

Actors : Jesse White, Elaine Stewart, Karen Steele, Ray Danton,
Directors : Budd Boetticher,

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself...

Actors : John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

Actors : Zarko Lausevic, Milos Zutic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Zdravko Sotra,

On June 28th 1389, at Kosovo Polje, an army of the Serbian Prince Lazar made a stand against the advancing Ottoman forces of Sultan Murad.

Actors : Sunil Shetty, Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : J.P. Dutta,

1999 India-Pakistan Kargil war. Based on the true story.

Actors : Javier Cámara, Juan Pablo Urrego, Patricia Tamayo, Nicolás Reyes Cano,
Directors : Fernando Trueba,

The story about a Colombian writer's father. His father was an University md professor who promoted tolerance and human rights in his country. Writer exposes his feelings related to his ...

Actors : Maurice Denham, Dirk Bogarde, Alec Guinness, Nigel Stock,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary Wars, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lt. Scott-Paget whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.

Actors : Ernst Castelli, Gustav Leonhardt, Paolo Carlini, Christiane Lang,

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

Actors : Jonathan Bennett, Jackson Bond, James Cromwell, John Cromwell,
Directors : Samuel Fischer,

Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. ...

Actors : Karim Abdel Aziz, Razane Jammal, Hind Sabri, Ahmed Ezz,
Directors : Marwan Hamed,

Two men team up to fight against British occupation in Egypt during the 1919 revolution.

Actors : Lilli Palmer, Senta Berger, Keir Dullea, Anna Massey,

Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion. This colorful movie depicts DeSade's life from ...

Actors : Manu Rishi Chadha, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Vijay Raaz, Raj Zutshi,

In 1948, a cross-fire erupts at an isolated stretch of Indo-Pak border, leaving only two soldiers alive. One is an Indian soldier of Pakistani origin while the other happens to be a ...

Actors : Meral Çetinkaya, Boglarka Csösz, Selim Bayraktar, Mahsun Kirmizigül,
Directors : Mahsun Kirmizigül,

Life of a young sultan, struggles with childhood love

Actors : Mustafa Nadarevic, Goran Visnjic, Tarik Filipovic, Goran Navojec,
Directors : Antun Vrdoljak,

Follows the life of general Ante Gotovina.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Kazimierz Wichniarz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Malgorzata Braunek,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Barbara Cupisti, Frank Finlay, Franco Branciaroli,
Directors : Tinto Brass,

In 1940s Venice, after twenty years of marriage, a Professor and his younger wife witness the passion wane. Now, all that remains is to confess the rousing thoughts to an elaborate diary hoping to break free from ties and inhibitions.

Actors : Benoît Magimel, Boris Terral, Colette Emmanuelle, Tchéky Karyo,
Directors : Gérard Corbiau,

Corbiau repeats the Farinelli formula, artistic rivalry and social private drama expressed in dazzling, sometimes excessively lavish baroque scenery, music and costume, but this time in its...

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Chûsha Ichikawa, Akira Takarada, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.